19th Century Paintings for Sale

Mark Mitchell’s collection of British and Continental art dates mainly from the last two centuries, roughly a third being still life and landscape 19th century paintings which are for sale. The subjects, themes, styles and techniques demonstrated in these paintings reflect on a partial scale, the concerns and innovations of the century as a whole.

Our 19th Century Paintings Collection

Mark Mitchell carries 19th century paintings in realist, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, academic, aesthetic and historicizing styles. Artists such as the British William Henry Hunt, for example, were quite avant-garde. Hunt was painting en plein air as early as 1805, along with John Varley, to whom he was apprenticed, and his minutely detailed technique, combined with his method of painting watercolours on a prepared ground of white, to some extent anticipated aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism. Both aspects were innovative in 19th century landscape paintings. Similarly, work by the popular and financially successful Frederick Lee, whose career coincides with the second and third quarters of the 19th century, and whose landscape paintings seem from our viewpoint, attractively traditional, were attacked by his more hidebound contemporaries for being ‘too green’! Conversely, pictures by Charles Thomas Bale and J. Lascelles Williamson are in a more academic style.

Of the Continental still life 19th century paintings included in Mark’s collection for sale, works by Joseph De Belder and Victor Fontaine betray how much both were influenced by the Aesthetic movement, and by the related fashion for japonisme and japonsiserie. De Belder’s ability to organize complex spatial relationships, betrays the same awareness of Japanese prints which influenced late 19th century still life paintings and the choreographing of space in works by Degas and Whistler. This is also true of the naturalised British artist and friend of Whistler, Albert Ludovici, who applied a japoniste sense of space to the costume subjects learnt from his artist father, along with a Whistlerian colour aesthetic and Impressionist brushwork. Such concerns are very different from those expressed by the echo of Landseer, Alexander and Diogenes, or by the fauviste Cafetière & flowers on a table, by Pissarro’s fourth son, Rodo.

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Browse through Mark Mitchell’s 19th century paintings range and purchase your statement art piece today; a perfect addition to any home or as a fantastic gift. If you would like to enquire about a particular painting, you can get in touch by telephone on 0207 493 8732 or by email. Alternatively, fill out our simple online contact form.